BackgroundThis project was created as part of a four-month international art residency at
Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture, a multimedia art space in Barcelona. The residency brought together artists working at the intersection of art, technology, and critical reflection on contemporary reality, providing a framework for investigating instability, acceleration, and the transformation of human experience in the digital age.
About the ProjectThe project explores the experience of losing stability in a world that changes faster than a person can adapt. In response to this condition emerges a desire to return to an original point — a state “before birth,” where there is no pressure of choice, no social roles, and no imposed imagery.
The installation invites the viewer to physically and perceptually enter this state, confronting vulnerability, nostalgia, and a heightened clarity of perception.
At the center of the installation is a doll-embryo sealed inside a 19-liter office water bottle filled with a viscous, translucent substance.
This represents the external, observational layer of the experience. By putting on a VR headset, the viewer shifts into the embryo’s internal point of view: the gallery space becomes visible through a dense, distorted medium, creating a sensory impression of regression — a return to a pre-identity state.
Surrounding the central object are four mannequins, each embodying a distinct way of perceiving the contemporary world: technological progress, commodification and the corporate gaze, the natural perspective, and a human, vital, maternal mode of perception.
These perspectives exist simultaneously in the physical installation and within the VR environment, allowing the viewer to move between them and compare each with the embodied experience of being the embryo. The project merges physical installation, immersive VR, and philosophical reflection on nostalgia, adaptation, identity, and the transformation of human life into image and commodity within the society of the spectacle.
Exhibition List:- 2026 — AI Design awards 2026, Palau Dalmasses Gallery, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- 2025 — IMMENSIVA exhibition, Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain